Wednesday, December 29, 2010

December 21st Isla San Francisco to Ensenada Grande, Isla Espiritu Santo,19 nm

Big waves right on the nose, wind 7-12knots, motored with the jib up.


Departed Isla San Fransico around 10am, the waves are still pretty big and bouncy here, we were hoping things would calm down, but really didn’t until we arrived.   Ensenada Grande.  We worked around the boat and enjoyed the suddenly beautiful calm tourqoise waters on this amazing sunny hot day.  Once SeaHorse arrived we all took our dink for a cocktail ride.  S/V Meridian arrived and anchored, we haven’t seen them since Algadones, Marina Real.  We talked to them for a bit then headed to the beautiful rock cliffs that look as though they have been melted on the tops and hollowed out holes everywhere.  The holes were cave like with the tops melting over them.  They are amazing to see,  it makes you wonder what happened here, maybe millions of years ago.  The scenery here is amazingly beautiful, cliffs with green catus and other tropical plants growing out of the cliffy sides, small white sand beaches lie between some of these cliffs.  The water is so pretty and you can see to the bottom as if looking through glass.  On our ride we saw fish and a baby stingray swimming right below us.  We decided to collect wood and have a campfire on the beach this night, but as Cam and Janie were collecting the wood, Brian and I held the dink in place, the waves were trying to push us up against rocks.  Once they got in and we brought the wood to the beach and unloaded it we relized it would not be safe to go back later for the fire.  The waves were large and there would be a good chance we could overturn the dink if its dark and we cant see the waves  to keep the nose of the dink into them.  The winds really picked up and again it was a sleepless night with Cormels. 

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